FORA.tv Speaker - Laura Nelson

Biography

Laura Nelson (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1997) is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Anthropology at California State University-East Bay. Professor Nelson's research interests are focused on two areas. She has published a book, Measured Excess: Status, Gender, and Consumer Nationalism in South Korea, on economic and social change in South Korea, and continues to look South Korean consumer life.
She has two projects in development for this area, one on credit cards and one on changing demographics in South Korea. Her interests also include the anthropology of public policies in this country, particularly from an applied perspective.